This post sounds typical of The Inquirer, "Officially marking that Seagate has finally sold out, by pandering to Jobs' plan for world domination and dropping their own unique design."
I know most of them "Inquirer Staff" are Linux Hacks but OS X rocks and anyone who has ever used a Mac for any respectable amount of time would agree, unless you are a diehard hack.
Whay in the world a Mac user would want to use some HD backup utility is beyond me.
Open OS X Disk Utility, create a encrypted disk image of your home folder to any external drive large enough to hold the image and you are done with a secure backup. 
Try that natively Linux (with a couple mouse clicks) or Microbloat at all.
I just get a HD housing and slam in my own HD that I want.

I own a Freeagent and an old One Touch external drive from Seagate, the older drive outperforms the newer one in every respect. It has on on/off button, it powersaves correctly and best of all it actually stacks and doesn't look like a bad turd.
I don't envisage buying anymore Seagate external drives until they sort out their abysmal design practices.

I'm so sick of this airy-fairy "Mac"-look. A quick viewing of the TV series "U.F.O" or the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" will show how completely lacking in modernity this style is - it's straight from the Sixties. I don't think white plastic goes well with flimsy aluminium; they should have gone with an all-metal design. The more professional-end Mac designs are more appealing to my tastes (just thought i'd add that before I get mown down by a mysterious turtle-necked man riding a segway).